Frightful Wreck Kills Dozens on Southern Railway Near Berry
A Southern railway excursion train derailed near Berry Alabama at 9 39 this morning killing thirty people and injuring eighty one many of them fatally The dead include trainmaster H M Dudley and engineer J W Crook along with numerous negro victims identified and unidentified Most survivors are from Columbus West Point Greenwood Eupora and surrounding Mississippi and Alabama towns The incident continues on the ninth page with further details and casualty lists
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Birmingham
Ala
Berry
Southern Railway
H M Dudley
J. W. Crook
Roscoe Shelby
Columbus
Miss
Marie Cox
Mississippi
H. M. Dudley
Jim Smith
Isola
Lillig
Martin and Child
Charley Carp
Ezhl Patterson
West Point
ED Clarke
Nate Green
Willie Thompson
Emmett Leroy
John McRevey
Cleburn
Johnson
Simon Girton
Willam Taylor
John Thompson
Ben Long
Joe Alexander
Tuscaloosa
George Barnett
Greenville
P. Wullan
Fayette
Alfred Matthews
Robert Phillips
Lee Wilson
Waverly
Edmond Young
Jim Black
George O'Neil
Greenwood
Mollie King
Mooney
Lula Shaw
Estella Brown
Lee Williams
Lena McNeil
Salbury Mason
Pheba
John Ross
Walter Mason
Hudson
Alfred Richardson
Willie Brown
Allen Snow
Eupora
S c. Chandler
Kid Clark
Tony Bush
William Franklin
Eru
Piton
Cape Town
New Supreme Court Justice To Be Chosen At General Election
Georgia voters will elect a successor to Justice Hale Lewis at the upcoming general election on October 1. Justice Lewis’s resignation is reportedly to take effect immediately, possibly September 30, and the governor may accept it upon return from Alabama. The vacancy triggers an election to fill the seat per law.
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Supreme Court
Georgia
Hale Lewis
Justice Lewis
Candler
Anniston
Ala
Supreme Bench
Outlaw Defies Police In Queens Siege Ends in Firefight
New York September 1 Twenty police officers armed with winchesters guard a North Beach house in Queens where a Black desperado named Jerry Hunter hides armed and defiant. Hunter struck at a passerby and felled Patrolman McKenna who is dying in hospital. Buckshot wounded Patrolman Brill, who is losing an eye. reserves were ordered out to storm the house at daylight.
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New York
North Beach
Queens
Jerry Hunter
John McKenna
Hunter
McKenna
St Johns Hospital
Long Taland
Arthur Brill
Lkely
Mont Pelee eruption devastates Martinique towns
British steamer reports Mont Pelee eruption killing about 200 people in Morne Rouge and Le Carbel near St Pierre. Crater blasts, ash falls, and tidal waves alarm residents. coast villages evacuated as authorities rush boats to aid survivors.
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Castries
Island of St Lucia
Brit
Kojena
Fort de France
Island of
St Vincent
Mont Pelee
St. Pierre
le Carbel
Lorrain
Basse Point
Thich
Mont
Pelee
Morne Rouge
Martinique
Korona
Labor Day Fest At Piedmont Park Draws Atlanta Crowd
Thousands watched a Labor Day celebration in Atlanta with foot races bicycle and horse races and a big motor paced bike show at the Coliseum. Excursions and low railroad rates brought visitors. many offices closed for the day as crowds enjoyed the Georgia building barbecue and multiple sports events.
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Piedmont Park
Atlanta
Ajid
Exposition Grounds
Jay Eaton
Gus Lawson
W. C. Puckett
Chauncey Foote
Gus Castle
Paul Witt Wey
PH. Moore
J W Bridwell
Gordon E. Johnson
Charles Hirsch
Thomas N Scales
Bieycle
Georgia
State of Georgia
Russell Filloté
Eliott
Bold Burglary at Todd Drug Store in Long Beach
A bold burglary at Todd Drug Company on Peach Tree and Pryor streets occurred around 1 am. Thieves pried open drawers and the safe, taking nearly 900 dollars from a post office government fund, while the door appeared untouched and the burglar remains at large. Police surrounded the store but found no culprit.
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Todd Drug Company
Peachtree and
Pryor
Post Office Department
United States
Meeks
Peachtree
Lockhart
P H Todd
J . Todd
United Sates
Campbell
Todd
Ignere
Dominican lay brother shoots boys near Rome vineyard
In Rome on September 1 a Dominican lay brother named Cuzzoli, custodian of a Minerva convent vineyard outside the city, fired on three boys stealing grapes killing one. He acted deliberately despite their pleas for mercy and has been arrested.
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Rome
Cuzzoll
Minerva
Cuzzoli
Indians on the war path in Naper Nebraska
Governor Savage was asked by the mayor of Naper to dispatch assistance after reports of an uprising by Yankton Indians near the town. The plea comes as authorities seek to prevent further conflict and protect residents.
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Naper
Nebr
Omaha
Savage
Appalling Gale Causes Heavy Loss of Life at Cape Town
A terrible gale off Port Elizabeth near Cape Town has produced heavy loss of life and ship damage. Fifty bodies have washed ashore at Port Elizabeth, several vessels driven aground, and crews lost as billowing breakers and night gloom hampered rescue efforts. The steamer Scott is missing and Premier Sprigg warned the death toll could be enormous.
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Cape Town
Lfe
Port Elizabeth
Tuga
Algoa Bay
Scott
Union Steamship Company
Southampton
John Gordon Sprigg
House Assembly
Train Carwayhold Robbery Near Nashville Unfolds
Express Messenger A B Battle describes two masked men rifling the Louisville and Nashville through train No 2 near Franklin Tennessee. They bound him at gunpoint as about 500 dollars in packages vanished before the robbers fled toward Nashville amid a heavy police hunt.
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Nashville
Citvy
Franklin
Hapress
Montgomery Ann
Wressenger Battle
Hotel Peng
Tim
Matt
George
Gun Hyatt
Hyatt
Weather and events mix as Labor Day lights up Atlanta
Tuesday and Wednesday bring fair skies with variable winds and a high of 86 while crews log 24 hour precipitation. The story threads through a resignation from the supreme court to be filled at the October 1 general election, Labor Day celebrations across Piedmont Park, and a slate of charges and crimes in Macon and Carrollton. Federal tax rulings in North Carolina, river steamers under review in New Orleans, and a Charleston district senate recount add to a broad national panorama.
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Usted Lew
Supreme Court
Candler
Piedmont Park
J H Lumpkin
North Carolina
Pearl River
New Orleans
Charleston
South Carolina
George F. Vononitz
United States
Kanaka
South
Vermont
Labor Day
General
Fairban
Roosevelt
Massachusetts
Louleville
Nashville
Express
North Atlantic
Navy
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Alabama
IGHTY
Lewis
Gother
Desperado
Atlantic
Caribbean
Ater, Alfred Craze
ccuRes Macaune
Ockam
STE
Mouilla
Russell Elliott
Safe
Todd Brug Company
Rgia
Hon C C Houston
Bureau of Labor
Macon
William Mate
Otis Ward
Pond
Carrollton
Americus Elks
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